MAKING MOBILE PROFESSIONALS: THE REPRODUCTION OF GENDER AND CLASS IN CHINESE WOMEN’S TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION
- Starting Time 活動開始時間
April 13, 2022 at 2:30 AM UTC
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April 13, 2022 at 12:30 PM GMT+10
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- Participants 嘉賓
Associate Professor Fran Martin
Fran Martin is Associate Professor and Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She recently concluded a 5-year ARC Future Fellowship project on the social and subjective experiences of young women from China studying and living in Australia (http://www.mobileselves.org).
Fran’s prior research has focussed on television, film, literature and other forms of cultural production in contemporary transnational China (The People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong), with a specialization in cultures of gender and sexuality. In addition to Dreams of Flight (Duke U.P, 2022), she is the author of Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film, and Public Culture (HK U.P., 2003); Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (Duke U.P. 2010); and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia (with Tania Lewis and Wanning Sun, Duke U.P. 2016). Her co-edited books include AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities (with Peter Jackson, Mark McLelland and Audrey Yue, Illinois U.P. 2008); Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures (with L.N. Heinrich, Hawaii U.P. 2006); and Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (with Chris Berry and Audrey Yue, Duke U.P. 2003).
- Organizers 主協辦機構
The Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies
Asia Institute | Faculty of Arts | The University of Melbourne
Email: China-centre@unimelb.edu.au
Web: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/centre-for-contemporary-chinese-studies#about
Twitter: @CCCS_unimelb
- Mode 活動形式
- Hybrid
- Venue 地點
- In person: Room 321, Level 3, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne; Online: Zoom
- Languages 語言
- English
- Description 詳情
This presentation draws on a 5-year ethnographic study of the social and subjective experiences of fifty young women from China through the years of their university study in Australia, whose findings were recently published in Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke U.P. 2022).
Although around 60% of outgoing students from China are female, the gendered dimensions of China’s educational diaspora have to date been little discussed. My study was interested in how educational mobility affects post-90s middle-class women’s negotiations of the contradictory gendered life scripts and self-understandings available to them today. One of the study’s premises was the observation of a tension in contemporary Chinese public culture between, on the one hand, a neoliberal-style discourse of self-reliant, self-entrepreneurial professional subjecthood that has strong interpellative power for well-resourced, middle-class, urban singleton daughters; and, on the other hand, a neotraditionalist discourse of women’s inherently family-centred “nature” and their biological destiny to marry and have a child(ren) by age thirty.
The research reveals an overseas-graduate subjectivity marked by decreasing identification with the neotraditionalist model of femininity, and correspondingly increased identification with mobile enterprising selfhood. Broadly, graduates emerged as market subjects: a willingly mobile labour force suited in terms of ideological orientation and self-understanding, as well as concrete skills, to work in the engine rooms of global capitalism as financiers, professionals, and high-level technicians. This broad tendency, however, is attended by multiple complexities connected with the women’s situations vis-à-vis class, gender, family, work, and mobility itself, which I will explore in this presentation through selected participant stories.
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